I would allow the Head Coach, choose his own staff and coaching structure and conditioner,

Radders has got to start picking his strongest team & the team selected have got to play with pride & passion, not just for us or the club but for themselves, we have a decent enough squad to compete with other teams.

too late now, ears needs to walk away and admit he's not up to the job

But this won't happen, so back to reality Martin.

What is that, though? Even with a fully fit squad, on the way they've all played this season, who would be our best 17? Does anyone know?

There has been so much chopping and changing it's too difficult to work out who has been suffering from lack of consistency of selection and who has been just plain bad. Add to that that some of those shipped out or who are in the 'not considered for selection' wilderness were actually no worse (arguably not even as bad in some cases) as some of those playing regularly, and it gets even harder.

He's inherited a decent squad & brought in another few along the way from what was available, I didn't get to the last 2 away games through work & going away, but I know he picked a few u19s to play against Wigan, I wouldn't have done this as knowing Wigan have a killer instinct & will go for the jugular!

He can sign an extension. As long as Cookie lends him the magic pen to do so .

Unless of course they have already conceeded that the season is over and they will blood the under19's to give them experience.

Excellent post. Sums things up quite well.

This is the problem. We as fans are scratching our heads but Radford should at least know by now who the best 17 are at his disposal. That's his job.

Thats why a fit Whiting and Crooks never play then

You said he needed to pick his strongest 17 for the rest of the season. I asked what that is, making the point that we've messed around with the team so much all season it's all but impossible to tell. We started the season not knowing what our best halves combination would be, but we're now at the stage where we don't even really know our best 2 centres or which wingers should go with them, and also which other 2nd rowers should play alongside Ellis. Judging by the last few games we've also now lost track of who our best props are or how to rotate them, because we're just pretty much playing all of them. An objective team selection with 6 games left would boil down to Shaul, Houghton, Ellis, Westerman, then names out of a hat.

I don't know what your response was intended to mean.

Agree with a lot of that. Not seen enough of Sa yet to say if I would pick him over Crooks. Whiting would also always have a place in my 17 (in this case at Green's expense).

3 props for me as rankin & Westy are utility within the 13.